Key Largo Bar

[gogoblender 3,637]

Goood morning lovely friends! !! Gonna be a looong and hot day today... just got back from my hike and already hitting 21 degrees supposed to go to 39... crank up that air con and slip on your Sunny's...  Tuseday is heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!

gogo

ps oops almost forgot my order… Bartender please set me up with a double iced latte!😀🥳🥳

[gogoblender 3,637]

MOrning everyone!

Got to see Ammamma last night, and even though both elevators were broken, we wont let five flights get in the way of dinner with the family matriarch

Have a great day everyone... and double me up on the Red Pekoe Please...Tea going forward forward!

[gogoblender 3,637]

Got back from an awesome afternoon lunch visit with Ammamma...sometimes shes soooo chill and just wants to smile and have fun with us.  When I open up the Ipad my mom's usually there as well for us, and we have meals with her three times a week... our nonoctagenrian is have golden days

I'm cutting on caffeine these days... a herbal fruist (blech :P) teah for me pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze

 

[gogoblender 3,637]

Set me up with a double espresso Mr. bartender! I come here fourth with a delicious breakfast… 😅, I hope this does not become a habit… From a vegetable market to a pear  chocolate croissant

😳

gogo

[gogoblender 3,637]

I'll take a double long please ! with a shot of Jagger on the side... we have a lot of German members on site these days, active, vociferous and .. drinkahs!

Had dinner with Ammamma last night, dang the chicken Biryani was  G O O D !!

[chattius 2,784]

If you wonder why I am posting less: Got promoted, no longer Hauptbrandmeister (main master in fire firefighting) but Gemeindebrandinspektor ( same but for all fire departments in an area/city)

6 from 7 volunteer fire departments wanted me as their chief. Now I have this on my shoulder

The only difference is that I now will have a yet to build van with a mobile bureau for coordinating and commanding. I opted for an Unimog. Front two third cabin with a bureau and then a tool part in the rear. Luckily I know a 350 million Euro heavy sponsor. He could lower his taxes by doing this

The below would be without a sponsor and for free: second hand from district capitol. But most of our community of 7 villages is woodland. Times change: I want remote control drones, remote vehicle, ... For exploring and search. The bureau thing can be nearly done with a phone.

That is how I see my job: arrive at scene with two, driver explores with drone, while I build up the command lines,... If unknown chemicals are involved send in the robot

 

 

[SLD 524]

3 hours ago, chattius said:

If you wonder why I am posting less: Got promoted, no longer Hauptbrandmeister (main master in fire firefighting) but Gemeindebrandinspektor ( same but for all fire departments in an area/city)

6 from 7 volunteer fire departments wanted me as their chief. Now I have this on my shoulder

Another weight upon your shoulders? Well, if 6 of 7 fire departments wanted you as their chief, you must be more than qualifed. I'm sure you'll carry it with pride.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu ihrer Beförderung, Gemeindebrandinspektor Chattius!

[chattius 2,784]

1 hour ago, SLD said:

Another weight upon your shoulders? Well, if 6 of 7 fire departments wanted you as their chief, you must be more than qualifed. I'm sure you'll carry it with pride.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu ihrer Beförderung, Gemeindebrandinspektor Chattius!

Vielen Dank

I hope once the learning new job phase is over there is not much extra time. The departments are so small that normally all are alarmed in case of a burning house or forest fire. For oil removing after a crash, cat on roof, hornet nests, ... no coordinator is needed. And these are the main calls.

What is new is district wide coordinating for disaster cases. I have to join meetings each 3 month.

 

What I hope to change is to win new firefighters by leaving old routes. Volunteer firefighters get fewer and fewer because people are more flexible in jobs and change home more often,

Searching for persons with a drone with nightvision optics needs less people than searching with people. A robot can be steared by persons who are not longer in the frontline because of age. Teens are interested in new technique and may join firefighters. Even if they leave home and settle somewhere else, I hope they join the firefighters there.

[SLD 524]

23 hours ago, chattius said:

Volunteer firefighters get fewer and fewer because people are more flexible in jobs and change home more often

If being a volunteer firefighter was already ingrained in them at the time they move around, they would just volunteer to fight fire at the new location. I think the bigger problem here is that the concept itself is kinda dying with all other concepts of physical community. It's just like being part of a church. If you are part of a church here and move elsewhere, you're gonna be part of a church there. But who's still part of church today? The concept of knowing and connecting with others that are physically around you is losing in value. The idea of "everyone together" is lost in a world of "everyone for themselves". And the young genertaions who don't even know what they are missing out on, never get to know this as they aren't properly picked up at an age, where they could learn about the benefits of things like volunteer firefighting. I mean how many new volunteer firefighters are there, that don't have some family connection to this idea of "community service".
I grew up in a small city of ~20k. From my own school experience, I remember that we learned that volunteer firefighters do exist, I learned what firefighters do in general, but I don't really remember any attempt at connecting kids with the idea that they themselves might want to join this some day or what benefits that might bring.
I mean, don't get me wrong, it would probably have been lost on me, but if I never got "invited" to the idea others who might be more interested/capable would also have missed out on the opportunity.

So if I'm a kid and I'm not approached with the idea in school, don't come from a home/family that brings the concept closer to me, I'm not gonna be interested to join up and all I'll ever remeber about fire fighters is that their trucks make a lot of noise and that water on burning oil goes boom.
I think that's what reduces the volunteer numbers the most. That the ones who might be interested don't know enough about it.
Of course there is also the problem with the idea of "why invest in a community that I'm gonna move out of soon" that you already brought up before.


Oh no, now you made me ramble about egoism, the end of humanity, again
Well, I'm glad there's at least you to save the world.

[chattius 2,784]

In small countryside villages volunteer firefighters are sometimes the only club where new settlers can find social contacts. For example our's has no pub. But normally you can find people when visiting the firefighters. Even old people come for a talk.

Even if you move away, you may have learned more about first aid or fighting kitchen or car fires. So even not joining firefighters at a maybe bigger city, the training should be still useful.

Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt... / hope dies last

[SLD 524]

16 hours ago, chattius said:

Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt... / hope dies last

Reading your posts cetainly keeps it up

[gogoblender 3,637]

Woke up a little later this morning.

Not quite unnecessary

but wholly necessary

 

Ayup... Pepsi... I know eh?  This is what happens when a Dolllar Store is just around the corner

gogo

[gogoblender 3,637]

Mooooorning Y'all and everyone!  First of the month! Time to pay the big bills like rent, mortgage or Ammamma heating   Schot and I always meet up around the first of month to see where we are with goals and ideas re our jobs, and more in-depth projects like the Sacred... we opted for our regular, the uber lox dishes which have beautiful ingredients and fabulous plating...gotta get away from the treadmill to see higher and further... perspective is the best gift in world, specially with Lox!

 

our fave so far

 

[gogoblender 3,637]

Mooooorning lovely folks!

picked this neat looking rainbow in a bag a few days ago.. we decided to open it last night... B O O M Sugar HIt... wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.... so much that only a few spoon fuls was enuff... gonna be a long day today..  teaspoon full or so every now and thens not so bad...

eh

gogo

[gogoblender 3,637]

Quick someone ..its FriYay.. loooooooong week at work ...here comes da weekend...with a side visit to get a new tooth printed out while watching TV... is this where Dentistry has come to 

[SacredEagle69 18]

The day of the week that fish in Britain and chickens in Kentucky just love. Good old Fry Day.

By the way, I like the new forum layout and the Submit Reply button, it definitely has that Star Trek/Sci-fi Pc game feel to it, excellent.

Edited March 7 by SacredEagle69
Including extra text.

[gogoblender 3,637]

56 minutes ago, SacredEagle69 said:

The day of the week that fish in Britain and chickens in Kentucky just love. Good old Fry Day.

By the way, I like the new forum layout and the Submit Reply button, it definitely has that Star Trek/Sci-fi Pc game feel to it, excellent.

heh, poor chickens and fish..oooh, my stomach says yum!  

I'll show Schot your comment for the buttons and lay out... ever since we had the big php changes, hes taken a fancy to our ole forum again...theres tons of practicing to do however, invision's new version 5 of their software is absolultely bonkers ahead in terms of theming, going to be exciting year moving forward. Lovely having you here on the  boards with us SacredEagle... well met and cheers tp to our lovely weekend!

gogo

[SacredEagle69 18]

Thanks gogoblender, appreciate it.

[gogoblender 3,637]

4 hours ago, SacredEagle69 said:

Thanks gogoblender, appreciate it.

moooorning! and here's that slurpy, rich hot coffee first thing in the morning on a weekend...oh, lordy almost out of groceriesooo to the food cave!

SacredEagle, I dug up this trailer of the what INvision 5 is looking to be like..its a little overwhelming for us but we're always excited to get to the newest toys for the loveliest Sacred Community in Da World!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

gogo

[gogoblender 3,637]

Morning eveyrone! round of lattes on the house! I had some tooth work done last week for the back molars...owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww  ... they were such huge teeth that it was still hurting...and my mouth got so frozen up that I had an occlusion that I had to deal with for a week while at work... Called my dentist office down the street for me and did some gogo-wailing... yay, lady said she had an apointment ready for me in one hour for a quick grind down of the tooth

..just like that  

noone can withstand the force of the wail...  

. nooooooooooooone...! !!

Now...  I can smile! Cyall soon! on the other side !

 

gogo

[Timotheus 436]

Hope you are doing better now gogo!

Oh hi 

[gogoblender 3,637]

9 hours ago, Timotheus said:

Hope you are doing better now gogo!

Oh hi 

hiyeeee Timmoooooo 

Gmorning and Gddddddddddday!

feeling muuuuuch better! though my tooth is still a little sore from last week, and gotta take some tylenols now and then...looked this up, apparently very big filling take a few weeks before pain completely subsides...  ... till then, eating the good foods on the other side and taking it easy on chewing ice cubes

jk!

gogo

ps heya, if anyones up for a dble expresso...that sounds like a great start for this morning... 655 AM and time to get going!

 

[bhj 29]

@gogoblender Still no pants I see

@Timotheus oooo A name I recognize

[gogoblender 3,637]

On 3/29/2025 at 1:17 AM, bhj said:

@gogoblender Still no pants I see
 

Muhahhaha,,youll never catch me coppaayrs... Nakid...F O R E V E R ..though I think... things didnt go as according to plan.. and may have ended up in the ditch ...can someone please tell and/or send me a pic ? Some cemetery somewhere? 
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh



 

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@Timotheus oooo A name I recognize 

 

Timo's is hopefully  gonna start up a Lego extra credits course for us struggling lego builders!!

gogo

[Timotheus 436]

@bhj  long time no see!

I would like something strong to knock me out with please. The kiddo has been experiencing quite some pain from his teeth coming through and the last few nights have been HELL...